Tennessee Voices: 'Marty Stuart Show' is reality TV at its best

6:52 PM,
Dec. 30, 2013

Written by

Robert Evins Pickard

Let's talk about two things that we are all interested in, television and reality. What is our definition of reality television? When the "Survivor" series began, and everyone was discussing it, I wondered: We have had reality television for years; we call it PBS. The scenarios depicted as "survival" are pseudo-reality; real survival is in nature, science, history and the arts. Don't get me wrong, everyone's mind needs a rest; there is a place for the pseudo-real nattering of the nabobs of narcissism who celebrate self-absorption, which I will call "Kardashianihilism." But can't the ...